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Whitchurch is a town in the borough of Basingstoke and Deane in Hampshire, England. It is on the River Test , 13 miles (21 km) south of Newbury, Berkshire , 12 miles (19 km) north of Winchester , 8 miles (13 km) east of Andover and 12 miles (19 km) west of Basingstoke .
Whitchurch was a rural district in Hampshire, England from 1894 to It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 based on the Whitchurch rural sanitary district . It was abolished in 1932 under a County Review Order and went to form part of the Kingsclere and Whitchurch Rural District .
Whitchurch was one of a number of new boroughs created in the south of England by Queen Elizabeth I. The borough consisted of most of the town of Whitchurch in northern Hampshire, a market town which by the 19th century had shrunk to insignificance. In 1831, the population of the borough was approximately 1,673, and the town contained 261 ...
History; Original company: Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway: Pre-grouping: Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway: Post-grouping: Great Western Railway: Key dates; 4 May 1885 () Opened as Whitchurch: 1 July 1924: Renamed Whitchurch (Hants) 4 August 1942: Closed: 8 March 1943: Re-opened as Whitchurch (Hants) 26 September 1949: Renamed ...
In 2013, Whitchurch–Stouffville had an estimated 11,249 jobs (excluding home- and farm-based businesses), 58.5% of which were full-time, 23.7% part-time, and the rest seasonal. While the manufacturing sector represented the largest number of local jobs in 2001, the actual numbers stagnated over the next decade between 1,300 and 1,600 jobs.
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The first municipal building in Whitchurch was an old town house in the centre of The Square; after it became dilapidated, it was demolished in the 1780s and the lord of the manor, Viscount Midleton, who was both a local member of parliament and an Irish peer, offered to pay for a new structure. [2]
Center for Urban History of East Central Europe; Centre for Contemporary History; Study and Documentation Centre for War and Contemporary Society; Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds; Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Collegium Carolinum (1956) Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History